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Daniel Radcliffe has not only grown up into a talented young man, he has dramatically moved on from Harry Potter.

Does he miss it? Not if you go by Radcliffe's lively Toronto filmfest press conference for The F Word, one of three films the 24-year-old Englishman has screening in TIFF 2013.

"It was 10 years and we had a fantastic time," Radcliffe said of the time he and his colleagues spent playing their now legendary characters in the Harry Potter movies.

"But it's really exciting for me to have moved on and to be doing other things. I'm always going to be incredibly proud of it -- and I wouldn't be sitting here talking to you all if there wasn't Harry Potter. I'm under no illusions about that. But I don't particularly miss it (except friendships with cast & crew). I'm very happy doing other things now."

Those three "other things" at TIFF are extraordinarily different: The F Word is a Canadian romantic comedy that is busting out as a filmfest hit; Horns is a dark fantasy-thriller he also shot in Canada; and Kill Your Darlings is a period drama in which he plays a young version of American poet Allen Ginsberg.

Radcliffe said he did not planning his winning trifecta at TIFF, nor did he deliberately plan to have three such varied films in a row.

"Ultimately, all I can base my decisions on are the scripts that I get and what I love and I respond to. It certainly wasn't a strategy that they would all be at TIFF. Sometimes, things just work out that way. But I'm very glad they have because they are three such different films. And I'm excited that people will finally get the chance just to see me doing different stuff -- absolutely!"

The F Word threw him into the orbit of Canadian filmmaker Michael Dowse and quirky screenwriter Elan Mastai. Together, they concocted a Toronto tale about a young man who falls for an enticing gal (emerging American star Zoe Kazan from Ruby Sparks), only to find out that she is already dating and the new relationship falls into "the friend zone."

The cast & crew of The F Word are funny people. Dowse said Radcliffe fit right in. "He's actually the loopiest of all of us."

For Radcliffe, loopy Canadian humour seems familiar, not foreign. "I don't think Canadian humour is necessarily that different from English. I did both Horns and The F Word in Canada, one right after the other, and I had a fantastic time. I felt very at home here. You made me feel very welcome."

Daniel Radcliffe has not only grown up into a talented young man, he has dramatically moved on from Harry Potter.

Does he miss it? Not if you go by Radcliffe's lively Toronto filmfest press conference for The F Word, one of three films the 24-year-old Englishman has screening in TIFF 2013.

"It was 10 years and we had a fantastic time," Radcliffe said of the time he and his colleagues spent playing their now legendary characters in the Harry Potter movies.

"But it's really exciting for me to have moved on and to be doing other things. I'm always going to be incredibly proud of it -- and I wouldn't be sitting here talking to you all if there wasn't Harry Potter. I'm under no illusions about that. But I don't particularly miss it (except friendships with cast & crew). I'm very happy doing other things now."

Those three "other things" at TIFF are extraordinarily different: The F Word is a Canadian romantic comedy, Horns is a dark fantasy-thriller he also shot in Canada; and Kill Your Darlings is a period drama in which he plays a young version of American poet Allen Ginsberg.

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